To concentrate or ventilate? Carbon acquisition, isotope discrimination and physiological ecology of early land plant life forms

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1504, 2008, Pages 2767-2778

  Meyer, Moritz ^a   Seibt, Ulli ^a   Griffiths, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bryophytes; Carbon isotopes; Carbon concentrating mechanisms; Mesophyll conductance; Pyrenoid

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS; BRYOPHYTE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHLOROPLAST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTRON; EVOLUTION; GREEN ALGA; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

ALGAE; ANTHOCEROTOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA; COLEOCHAETE ORBICULARIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; MARCHANTIOPHYTA; MEGACEROS VINCENTIANUS;

EID: 47249105012     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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